08 May 2008

I Can See Clearly Now!

One of my favorite things about our apartment is the floor to ceiling windows in every room.

However, when it comes time to clean them, they become my least favorite things about our apartment. The windows are hard enough. There are 27 windows in total and all but 7 of them are the floor to ceiling variety. Plus the shutters? They are even harder to clean. It takes me a few days to work my way through them all and at the end I am stiff and sore. It is not easy work!

Unfortunately, I am one of those people who feel that it is best to clean your windows twice per year in order to maximize the light coming in and your ability to see the view.

However, this Spring I decided to go a different route.

So today I spent my time getting caught up on e-mails, blog posts and reading books while two people busily cleaned my windows and shutters for me.

And all I have to do is hand the bill to GLH when it comes in the mail.

i am doing the windows again in honor of my parents arrival - i did them last in december. do you have any good tips for the shutters. (do you have rolladen and problems with street grime?) i would love to hear what your normal cleaning regime consists of, because i am way to chicken to ask my MIL.

We also have floor to ceiling windows. However, I opt for the clean-the-windows-in-one-room-each-week approach. That way, I make the full circuit once every nine weeks if I do the smaller windows in out bathrooms all in one week.

Clean the blinds? I've never done that in the 3+ years we've lived here, and I had no intention of doing so until...your post caused me to have a good look at them and realize how dirty they are.